Finance

What trends and innovations are shaping the future of financial efficiency?

Invoices typically come in through different channels in various formats. Many companies aim for automation but often must navigate various workarounds to address limitations imposed by suppliers. Hence, handling accounts payable processes efficiently, adopting Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) technology as well as meeting electronic invoicing regulations, and increasing the number of no-touch invoices with fully automated 3-way matching, often becomes challenging for Finance professionals. These challenges arise from the fact that current solutions primarily focus on transitioning from paper or PDF invoice processing and need enhancements to meet evolving needs.

Manual invoice approval

On average 42% of the invoices are not auto-matched. When invoices are incomplete or the process does not contain the logic to find associated purchase orders and goods receipts, it often requires collaboration with Procurement, end users, and line managers to reconcile these invoices. These challenges can be effectively addressed through the implementation of an automated, closed-loop Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Cycle.

Limited automation

EDI has long been hailed as a game-changer in finance, enabling secure and efficient data transmission. However, finance professionals often grapple with the complexities of EDI implementations, and integrations into existing financial systems and workflows. Ensuring data accuracy and compliance while keeping up with evolving standards and regulations adds another layer of challenge.

Managing non-PO invoices

Tail spend, sometimes overlooked, hides significant savings opportunities both from an efficiency as well as cost reduction perspective. Dealing with many one-off or infrequent vendors and not having a formal purchasing process can lead to rogue spending and a large number of non-PO invoices. The challenge is to get control over tail spend, improve spend under management, and gain better insights from the start.

4 key factors for designing future-proof financial processes

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Securing efficiency through P2P automation

The integration of financial systems, IT, and compliance strategies provides companies with a distinct competitive advantage. “Ready-to-pay” invoices do not only lead to healthy supplier relationships and avoid delivery disruptions, friction costs like extra calls and meetings as well as potential penalties, but they also create the opportunity to turn these into a revenue stream by leveraging Supply Chain Finance and Dynamic Discount programs, increasing the number of days credit reduction. By optimizing financial processes, adhering to compliance regulations is not just a burden and a challenge, it will also provide you with improved digital OTC and P2P processes because real electronic documents become the minimum entry-level and PDF and other forms of semi-digital data exchange are becoming obsolete. Leveraging our capabilities in this area will provide you with a competitive edge.

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Shaping the Future as a Strategic Partner at the Industry's Forefront

What your industry peers have to say

“On the procure-to-pay side, we are about 45% digital on processes related to inbound material flows, that's about 75% of the purchase order lines. So, we have orders, order confirmations, and packing lists. Now we are also starting electronic invoicing with Quyntess within our procure-to-pay process and we also have a virtual catalogue.“ 


Daniel Tongeren
Digital Production Specialist
MCB

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Our approach

P2P apps designed to deliver true e-invoices

Universal procure-to-pay solutions

We handle 100% of your invoices, regardless of their source, format, or origin. Our extensive range of invoice processing capabilities is designed to maximize the use of pre-populated, high-quality data. In cases where invoices still fall short of minimum requirements, they are automatically returned to the issuing party for completion or correction.

An essential element of our service is guiding and assisting suppliers in the invoice creation process, encouraging the generation of authentic electronic invoices, as opposed to merely replicating a digital process through scanning and data capture.

Ultimately, this innovative approach greatly benefits suppliers. They no longer need to field frequent customer inquiries to check on invoice statuses, and with significantly improved data quality, invoices are processed promptly. This, in turn, unlocks opportunities for swift payment options and other supply chain finance services, ensuring flexible access to the capital needed.

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Tradeshift PAY

Tradeshift PAY is purposefully designed with a native digital experience at its core. Its fundamental mission revolves around enhancing control, elevating visibility, and reducing costs, all of which are integral to this Accounts Payable Automation solution and the extensive commerce network it supports. Tradeshift stands as the world's fastest-growing B2B collaboration network, connecting companies across over 160 countries, and enabling seamless transactions between buyers and its suppliers.

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Approvals Workflow

The Approval App and embedded workflow rules in our P2P apps streamline fast and efficient approvals with all stakeholders. They also avoid redundant approvals of agreed changes and exceptions already recorded prior to invoice receipt. Mobile use with push notifications and easily configurable to your internal approval control rule set with the option to load these from an external Identity Management system and ensure SoD (Segregation of Duties) and Delegations are applied correctly.

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Order Collaboration

By utilizing our Order Collaboration App to streamline collaborative efforts in order change processes between buyers and sellers, including the implementation of corrective actions at the order line level, you can guarantee the accurate creation of electronic invoices by all sellers in your supply chain. Furthermore, if you are already using a particular function or tool, it is entirely feasible to seamlessly integrate it with our system via our Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

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Services Collaboration

The Service Collaboration App allows companies to simplify and standardize service procurement over multiple departments. The app offers modern collaboration around service contracts, service order releases, and service entry sheets from suppliers for crucial service receipt validation and associated communication and collaboration with your service partners. Approved service entry sheets can be flipped into digital and qualitative service invoices.

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Q-Card

A Purchase Requisition, PO, or Invoice process can become inefficient if used for one-off or infrequent vendors. Credit cards are notoriously hard to process to obtain receipts and monitor whether expenses were made within policy. Expense forms have similar characteristics of approvals and delayed payments to employees which are generally a source of friction. Q-Card is a modern Tail Spend Control tool disguised as a payment method.

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Can't find a suitable solution for your priority?

The Quyntess app suite consists of 13 comprehensive apps that allow you to improve collaboration across the entire supply chain. Learn more about each app and find a suitable solution to match your business requirements around shipment and logistics collaboration, product data management, quality collaboration, electronic document management, or freight rate collaboration.

Digital Transformation Workshop

Quyntess offers you a complementary Digital Transformation Workshop, designed to make you aware of and prioritize your supply chain needs. This allows you to identify potential areas for improvement and develop an actionable plan to deliver better supply chain performance.  

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